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“I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.”
Source : Theobald Wolfe Tone (1893). “The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1763-1798; Ed. with an Introduction by R. Barry O'Brien”
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“There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.”
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“The only compensation for land is land,”
Source : Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.145, Voyageur Press (MN)
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“But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.”
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“For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.”
Source : Robert K. Greenleaf, Hamilton Beazley, Julie Beggs (2003). “The Servant-leader Within: A Transformative Path”, p.41, Paulist Press
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“There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.”
Source : David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr
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“But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”
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“Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.”
